2558 ARTICLE 11.

Contested Elections.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270CCCCC. 1918 Code, sec. 457.

432. All cases of contested elections: of Mayor or City Register shall be
decided by the Circuit Court for Frederick County. Said Courts may
adopt such modes of proceedings and adjudging costs in such cases as to
it should seem most satisfactory, but the rules of taking testimony therein
shall be the same as those which regulate the taking of testimony in other
cases cognizable by said Court.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270DDDDD. 1918 Code, sec. 458.

433. If either party shall deem himself aggrieved by the decision of
said Court in cases of contested elections he shall have a right to appeal
to the Court of Appeals, as in other cases, said appeal to be taken within
five days from the date of the decision complained of, and shall be heard
and decided by the Court of Appeals as soon after the transmission of the
record as may be practicable, and the testimony taken in such cases shall
be sent up to the Court of Appeals as part of the record.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270EEEEE. 1918 Code, sec. 459.

434. The copies of any papers recorded in any office of record, attested
under the hand and seal of the recording officer, shall be admitted at all
such trials in the same manner as the originals would be if produced.
The copies of any other papers of a public nature, and remaining in pos-
session of a public officer, and extracts from the poll books, under the
hand and seal of the public officer in whose custody they are, shall be
admitted as evidence.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270FFPFF. 1918 Code, sec. 460.

435. The officer to whom ballots have been returned under the pro-
visions of this Article, and who has the custody thereof, shall produce any
such ballots in regard to which testimony may be proposed to be taken
before said Court in a contested election, and shall furnish said Court
copies of the same in pursuance of the terms and conditions of its order
and subject to its restrictions; and said officer shall retain such ballots
in possession and custody until such ballots shall be required by the order
of said Court to be delivered to said Court.

BUILDING CODE.

1929, ch. 509.

436. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick is hereby authorized
and empowered to adopt a building code, regulating the construction,
maintenance, repair and removal of buildings and other structures in
the city, to establish and define fire limits, prescribe the character of
buildings which are forbidden to be erected within said limits, to regulate
the construction of buildings to prevent the spread of fire, to provide